Speaking of Renee, she's running through some park on the shore somewhere. She runs into a friendly ranger and identifies herself. She starts to tell him about the attack on the White House and asks him to call it in. But before he can, Dubaku Junior takes him out! Renee takes off again with Junior in hot pursuit.
Down in the White House holding cell...Bill enters to tell Jack that he's going to be transferred to the Attorney Genera's care and criminal charges are being sought. Jack could care less, he wants to know what's up w/ the attack. Bill informs him that they have no freakin' clue what's going on and Tony can't get anything more out of his source. He further informs him that Renee Walker followed up on her own lead and got a visual on the attack force led by Juma himself. Oh, and by the way, little Renee went missing. This gets Jack's attention! Even after the slapfest, he still likes Renee. He tells Bill that Ryan Burnett is their only hope and was about to talk before everyone intervened. He asks for five minutes alone w/ Burnett, which of course is out of the question now that he's being transferred to a hospital. Jack begs Bill to go "interrogate" Ryan himself...practically begs him...but Bill is not the torturin' kind. He apologetically informs Jack he just can't do it, and leaves him stewing in his cell.
Down in the tunnels, Juma's men have reached their target and radio some maintenance worker dude on the other side of the wall. He tells the general he's ready, but is interrupted by a coworker who wanders in and wants to know what's up. Juma's man plays dumb, and his friendly colleague starts telling him about a little Chinese Dinner party on Saturday and asks if he's going to come. When the colleague's back is to him, he says something about looking forward to "Sheila's cooking" and then stabs him in the back! With a screwdriver!
Juma's man on the inside moves a cabinet revealing a convenient weak spot in the wall, and informs the general it's all clear. Juma's got some tech genius with a laptop that takes out a laser alarm system, they kick through the wall, and are totally in the white house! oh no! Juma's genius pulls up the Secret Service tracking grids on his laptop and tells the General the Prez is in the Oval Office, and they move out!
The Baddies enter a hallway of the White House proper, take out a couple of Secret Service dudes...check their grid again and note they have nine minutes to find the President, while we conveniently cut to break.
When we return, Juma and crew are continuing to storm the White House. They take out a couple of nameless suits and stumble upon communications lady Meredith, who is on the phone. Juma tells her to hang up, and then kills her. Sayonara Meredith! The siege continues with so little resistance, it's like they are storming a McDonald's Play Place, or something.
Back at the park, Larry and crew are in pursuit of Renee and Junior. Renee stumbles upon a storage shed, but Junior catcher her. She tells him that Juma had his father killed, but he doesn't believe her. She confronts him with the facts, but he still doesn't want to believe it! Sensing that the Dubaku Stubbornness Gene didn't skip this generation, she takes a shovel to his head! They tussle and I'm totally impressed by Renee's moves. However, Junior gets the upper hand and starts strangling her. Fortunately, Big Daddy Boss Moss arrives just in time and takes out Junior. The Dubaku Dynasty is pretty much pfft in the last two hours!
Meanwhile, Bill is transferring Jack to the AG's custody apologetically when he gets the call from Larry that the White House is the target! Oh No! He issues the alert and decides to free Jack since he needs all hands on deck. There's a frantic scramble to get the President and First Daughter into lock-down.
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Comments (6)
Fantastic recap, Dogsnaxx! I nearly fell out of my chair at the pic of Bob Ross! And "Don't Tase Me, Bro!" BWAHAHAHA!!!
Any true fan of 24 will forgive just about anything as long as the story is solid. And this season has been FANTASTIC! That slap on Prez Taylor was like a punch to the gut. No other show on television packs this much tension, suspense and drama. I LOVE IT!!!
1 of 6 | Posted by slumrville | Posted on March 7, 2009 8:37 AM
"Any true fan of 24 will forgive just about anything as long as the story is solid. And this season has been FANTASTIC!"
Copy that! ;-)
Great recap, as usual! I was waiting for a Little Mermaid reference re: Agent Zombie Spice's little swim. The Bob Ross thing killed me too. Totally unexpected, and absolutely perfect.
I found it hard to believe that Agent DeadSlut discovered D-bag's warrant before Plum Puddin' did, yet PP was able to figure out what Chloe was up to this week, in mere minutes? As my mom would say, she (PP) could "eff up a wet dream".
Loved Jack's taser telephone temper tantrum. I think I need one of those - I bet tasing (sp?) a phone is much more satisfying than just hanging up on someone *cough my husband cough*.
Senator Dick-head has to go, and he has to go big. Dude is CLUELESS.
Taylor has balls, but for the love of God, please, no more Taylor O face screenshots. That's like seeing a parent's O face. :-P
Based on the preview for next week, I'm wondering if Juma taps some of the WH laundry staff - that flag looks suspiciously crease free, given it had to have been stuffed in a backpack.
2 of 6 | Posted by jjnoza | Posted on March 7, 2009 1:21 PM
@ Slumrville
I agree the season has been a LOT better than some of the past ones. Fortunately, some of the crazy/nonsensical leaps and action give me a little something to make fun of! I couldn't imaging trying to make fun of 20 minutes worth of dudes running through hallways with guns...oh, wait! That happened this week in the White House! haha.
@ JJnoza
I totally missed the Little Mermaid reference! Good call! I'm hoping having a single hour to focus on next week will let me zero in on some more of the little humorous moments. Also, can't wait until Mayer gets his. If Erika was DeadSlut...he's gotta be DeadDickHead...only a matter of time!
3 of 6 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on March 7, 2009 3:29 PM
I agree that this season is improved over recent ones. But the White House being accessed by deep water divers landing at a catacomb system and blowing their way into the basement had me howling with laughter. The only water near the WH is a 3' deep reflecting pool filled with algae.
Part of what makes this show so suspenseful is that it's basically realistic. That ridiculous dank cave being wired with Matrix style red-beam alarms was just the stupidest thing I think I've seen all year.
Way to go! JACK. (I always say JACK using Ramon Salazar's voice. What are you going to do NOW. JACK.)
4 of 6 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on March 7, 2009 10:06 PM
I don't want to seem snarky, but there was a great selection of malapropisms in this recap:
--the new attack will be on his conscious.
--sneak a peak
--Once the hole gang is in the tunnel
--the beg attack gets underway
--the Attorney Genera's care
--Juma is coralling all his hostages
It does help to have an anally retentive friend look over your text before publishing it. Spellcheckers can't find that kind of error.
Anyway, I do agree with all your snarks at the show. "Worst.Use.Of.Split-Screen.Ever!" I was scratching my head at that too.
Otherwise the whole subtext of "torture is the RIGHT THING TO DO on any occasion for any reason", is starting to get to me. Jack seems like the torture evangelist. Renee and the Pres have already seen the light. Bill is the only hold-out, (unless Senator Dickhead somehow has to recant, though he'll probably be dead meat before that). Funny how Jack can be tortured by the Chinese for two years and not break a sweat, but he can magically extract the truth in literally minutes, from all kinds of hard cases, time after time. And why couldn't the senator's aide have just made up a target? He only had to fake them out for 10 minutes. How could Jack have known otherwise? Just because He's Jack.
And the whole idea of an actual president leading a terrorist raid while his own country is under attack, is so absurd in so many ways. Even if he survived (of course, he won't) he'd find himself deposed and executed should he return home.
And it always comes down to some Old White Guy as the Big Bad.
Prediction: Juma wil be in the limelight for the next hour, but dead by 9pm, when the mysterious "shipment" arrives (Ebola?), being the final threat of the night and Jon Voight reveals his nefarious plan to install the VP as his stooge.
5 of 6 | Posted by AlanHK | Posted on March 10, 2009 3:58 AM
@ Memememe
I agree w/ you 100%. After first watching the 2-Hr episode, I was left feeling confused. On the one hand, the action and stuff was juicy. On the other, It was all so unrealistic, it kind of took me out of the story. Went back and thought about it, and it really was deep water divers and underground tunnels that lost me. If they are going to take the FREAKIN' White House (unbelievable in and of itself) then couldn't you at least make their entrance plausible?
@AlanHK
Great predictions! I agree, but didn't call Juma getting taken out before 9pm. That was a good one. And just in time, after 13 episodes, I'm getting tired of the Sangala stuff. On to the big bad Blackwater stand in!
Sorry about the malapropisms. I can't guarantee there won't be more of them...but I'll be the first to admit I didn't spend my usual time and due diligence to editing this week. It was just focused on finishing.
Another great episode this week! I'm getting started on the recap now.
6 of 6 | Posted by Dogsnaxx | Posted on March 10, 2009 7:37 AM